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Oscar Rabin
Date:
1968
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A visitor came to the shtetl,
A stranger, with unrest in his step . . .
No-one recognized his unrest. No-one asked him:
“Stranger, are you weary?”
Across the blue sky the evening drew its curtain…
Contributor:
Izi Charik
Date:
1924
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Artist Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1910
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Year after year, that cruel monster in the heart
growing, sense of guardedness expanding.
Year after year—generations’ blessing
gouged like a needle into the body.
I have wrenched it with irons…
Contributor:
Shmuel Halkin
Date:
1927
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Mark Markov-Grinberg
Date:
1953
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Mikhail Trakhman
Date:
1942
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Art is ultimately tantamount to nature if only we understand it somewhat more broadly and look at man as a natural phenomenon. As the saying goes, no matter how you try to drive nature out through the…
Contributor:
Maximilian Syrkin
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1910
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This is how things go with your average Jew. But Hershele is not your average Jew. It wasn’t by chance that he was famous in all of Ostropol, in all of Berdichev, and in all of Vilyuisk.
Hershele…
Contributor:
Isaac Babel
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1918
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The city of N. is built in three rings. First ring: the marketplace at the very center. Second: surrounding the market, the great city proper with its many houses, streets, byways, back…
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Der Nister
Date:
1939
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Contributor:
Robert Falk
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ca. 1924